The complete collection
All six books of the season as DRM-free ebooks, plus a printed postcard set — for less than the price of four.
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Lena Hartmann
Publisher. Reads manuscripts on trains, edits them at home, and still answers every submission herself.
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Ten books for long winter evenings
Our team’s winter list: some of ours, most of them not, all of them best read under a blanket.
The Salt Road
A salt merchant’s daughter walks the old coastal road from the marshes to the mountains, carrying a letter she is not allowed to read.
Why we print on cream paper
White paper is for forms and invoices. Books deserve something warmer — and easier on the eyes.
A Field Guide to Quiet Mornings
Twenty short essays on the first hour of the day: coffee, birdsong, the light on a kitchen table and the art of not checking your phone.
In conversation with Maren Holt
The author of Letters from the Lighthouse on islands, diaries and writing to someone who may not exist.
Letters from the Lighthouse
For one winter, a lighthouse keeper writes to a woman she has never met. The letters arrive in the wrong order, decades later.
How we choose a manuscript
We publish six books a year. We read about six hundred manuscripts to find them.
The Paper Garden
Sixty poems about gardens, grandmothers and the patience of growing things, each one given its own page and plenty of white space.
Small Rooms, Long Winters
Twelve stories set in twelve small apartments of the same building, over one very long winter.
The Cartographer’s Daughter
Venice, 1790. A mapmaker’s daughter finishes her late father’s atlas and discovers a city that is not on any map.